Aunc.1728 net.applic utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!unc!wm Mon Jan 18 23:09:10 1982 dataflow machines Arvind flew down here from MIT last night and we talked for a few hours. He says that the japanese are working on a dataflow machine. The "rumor" version of this is that they feel that the US has conventional computers pretty well sewn up, so they feel that they will get a head start on the next generation of computers. In case anyone doesn't know who Arvind is, he is a professor at MIT working on dataflow languages and architectures. He and Kim Gostello (at UC Irvine) wrote ID and he is currently working on a prototype computer to execute it. Arvind has also heard a rumor that some company in the Northwest (maybe Seattle) ran an ad announcing that they were about to start selling a dataflow machine. Did anyone see this ad, or know something about this? ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.